Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — WON’T DEMOBILIZE BY JULY 1 [ARTICLE]

WON’T DEMOBILIZE BY JULY 1

Chicago City Clerk Is Advised by War Department. Chicago, May 23.—‘Official notification that the demobilization of the United States’ amy will not be accompllshed before July 1 was received by City Clerk James T. Igoe from Adjt. Gen. Julius A. Penn. The war department notice,, was a response to the resolution adopted by the city council May 6, petitioning President Wilson to declare the army demobilized by July 1 so that the ban on intoxicants could be lifted on that date. “The secretary of war directs me,” says the letter, “to advise you that the demobilization of the army will not be completed by that *date. It will therefore be impossible to make a statement of fact on July 1, 1919, that the United States army is demobilized.”